Magazine mounting for typographical machines



Nov. 22, 1927.

T. S. HOMANS MAGAZINE MOUNTING FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES Filed Oct. 22. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l Zfzavzaup Nbv. 22, 1927. 1,650,448

T. S. HOMANS MAGAZINE MOUNTING FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES Filed UN 22. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Z'Zanzayi 1262/24/20 Patented Nov. 22, i927.

THOMAS s. nor/inns, or HEMPSTEAD, new YORK, ASSIGNOR To In'rnnTYrn conronn'rion, on rnoonnrn, new roan, A conronn'rron or new YORK.

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Application filed October 22, 1925. Serial No. 64,256.

The present invention relates to improvements in typographical machines of the-class wherein matrices are delivered from a matrix ma azine to an assembling point and composec into a line from which a. type bar or slug is cast, after which, the matrices are distributed andretu'rned to the magazine; and it relates more particularly to machines of this class which are adapted to contain a plurality ofmagazines holding, re.- spectively, matrices belonging to different fonts, the magazines having means for adjusting them whereby one or another of the magazines may be set in operative position to deliver matrices therefrom for assembly and to receive matrices which are distrib uted and returned thereto afteracast has been made from the matrix line. Y

A machine of this general class is shown and described in my prior Patent No. 1,352,965, granted Sept. 14, 1920, wherein are shown three separate magazine structures holding, respectively, one, two and three magazines, each of these structures comprising a unit which can be mounted interchangeably in a single main frame of standard form, thus enabling the machine to be assembled as a one, two or three magazine machine, or converted from a one or two magazine machine into one containing two or three magazines. However, in such maga ines, each unit, which contains a number of magazines in superposed relation, comprises a primary frame or cradle and a seeondary or magazine-supporting frame which carries the magazines, the primary frame or cradle carrying mechanism for shifting the secondary or magazinesupporting frame therein in a manner to bring one or another of the magazines into operative relation with the single assembler and distributor of the machine. Also, in such machines, each magazine unit, consisting of the primary frame.

or cradle, the secondary or magazine-supporting frame and the set of magazines, is tiltable from its normal or operative forwardly inclinedposition to a reversed'or rearwardly inclined position for the removal or insertion of magazines, the cradle of each unit being provided for this purpose with pivots which engage bearingsin the main frame.

The primary object'ofthe present invention is to provide asimplified and improved structure whereby the tilting of the magazine structure for the removal or interchange of a magazine and the return of the structure to bring one or another of the magazines into operative relation with the assembler and distributor .can be accomplished by moving or rockin onlythe magazines and theirsupporting rames while the 7 frameor structure on which themagazinesupporting frame is mounted and which car ries the mechanism for shifting the magazines and their supporting frame remains stationary and thus may form part of, or be rigidly connected with, the main frame of the machine. In this way the weight of the structure to be lifted and rocked to bring the magazines into position foropera tlon or removal andthe requisite effort to be exertedto accomplish such lifting and rock ingmovements are considerably reduced, and other advantages are obtained in the manipulation and operation of the machine. To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be more fully hereinafter described, the features of novelty being pointed out par ticularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawings: Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a typographical machine of the class hereinbefore referred to, embodying magazineshowing a portion of the mechanism for shifting the magazine-supporting frame to bring one or another of the magazines into [DOSltlOll for operation and also showing a portion of the means which detachably connects the magazine-adjusting mechanismto the magazine-supporting frame.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the different figures.

The main frame of the machine, as is usual in machines of this class, comprises, for convenience in manufacture, a number of components which may be made separately but are bolted or otherwise rigidly secured together.

In the present instance the numeral 1 designates a. portion of the main frameof a typographical machine of the general class constructedas rigid or immovable compo- 'nents of-the'main frame of the machine.

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In the instance shown, three matrix magazines 4; are mounted on a magazine-supportin'g frame which comprise frame members 5 and end pieces 6, which rigidly unite them,

the magazines and their supporting frame thus constituting a unit. This magazine unit is provided towardsits upper end with a pair of alined rollers T, which are journailed on pins 8 fixed to the magazine-supporting frame,'and these rollers are arranged to overlie and r.de upon tracks or latches 9, which are attached to and slidably mounted, as bythe pin and slot devices 10, on the upper end of the members 3. The magazine unit while in its forward or operative position is supported at its lower end by a shaft 11. which detachably receives or on which rest open bearings 12, preferably fixed to the forward end of one of the frame members 5, these hearings straddling the shaft 11 when the magazine unit is in its forward or operative position but being free to lift or disengage from the shaft 11 when the magazine unit is'shifte'd into itsrearwardly inclined position as shown in Fig. 2.

The means shown in the present instance for positioningfthe ends of the magazines in operative relation to the assembling and distributing mechanism comprises stub shafts 13,'whieh are fixed to cranks 14, the latter being arranged at the inner sides of the frame members 3 and have the shaft 11 fixed thereto eccentricallv of the stub shafts. 'lhe stub shafts extend outwardly through the framemembers 3 through slots 15 therein,

these slots determining the plane in which thestub shafts 13.1nay shift in a forward or rearward direction, and a toothed rack 16 is provided at the inner side of each frame member 3 so that it extends parallel to the respective slot 15. Each stub shaft 13 has a toothed pinion 17 fixed thereon and engaging in the respective rack 16, and

means such as a'crank 1S fixed to one of the stub shafts 13 at the outer side of the respective frame member 3 is provided for roward end of the magazine unit rests.

tating the stub shafts and thereby revolving the cranks 14 and shaft 11 on which the for- B r operating the crank handle 18 and therebg' rotating the cranks 1 1 and shaft 11, the magazine unit is caused to rise or fall bodily as it describes three'cycloids or arcs corresponding to the operative positions of the three magazines, and at the same time the stub shafts 13, by reason of the engagement of their pinions 17 with the racks 16, will travel longitudinally in the slots 15 to carry the escapernents 19 at the forward end of one magazine out of operative position with the escapement actuating reeds 20 and bring the escapements of another magazine into operative relation with the reeds.

The mode of operation of the magazineshifting mechanism is set forth in detail in my prior Patent No. 1,156,031, granted Oct. 5, 1915, but it may be here stated that each cycloidal or arcuate movement causes the magazines to first rise, then move forwardly or rearwardly according to which magazine is to he brought into use, and finally descend, whereby the escapements of the magaz ne which has been in use are first lifted out of operative relation with the reeds 20, then these escapements are carried out of a pos' ion above the reeds 2G and the escapements of the selected magazine are brought into a position above the reeds, and finally the escapements of the selected magazine are lowered into operative relation with the rear While the lower end of the magazine unit is thus moving, the rollers 7 which support the upper end thereof will ride upon the tracks or latches S) on the upper ends of the frame members 3.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the mechanism which shifts the magazines to bring one or another thereof into operative position is carried by the fame members 3 which are fixed to, or form part of, the main frame of the machine, and that the magazine unit is detachably connected to the shaft 11 of the magazine-shifting mechanism by the forked or open bearing members 12.

According to the present invention the magazine unit is arranged to be reversed or turned from its front or operative position towards its rearwardly inclined position for the withdrawal or replacement of the magazinesby pivoting the magazine unit on the main frame or the frame members 3 which form a part thereof. To this end pins or studs 21 are fixed to and project laterally from the opposite sides of one of the frame members 5. preferably the intermediate frame member which carries the middle. magazine. These pins or studs are located intermediately of the ends of the magazine unit. When it is desired to reverse or rotate the magazine unit towards the rear of the machine, or from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 2, the magazine unit, if it is not at the moment in its lowermost operative position as shown'in Fig. 1, is brought to that position by operation of the crank handle 18 in the proper direction. During such operation the studs 21 Will pass into open slots 22 formed in the frame members 3 and come to rest on the seats 23 in these slots. When the studs are so seated, the magazine unit is in position to be rotated or rocked rearwardly, and the unit will be free for rearward rotation or rocking as soon as the latches or tracks 9 are slid forwardly, or from the normal position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 2, as the latches or tracks 9 will then deprive the rollers 7 of their supports and these rollers will be free to descend while the upper end of themagazine unit swings rearwardly, the pins or studs 21 during this rearward swing of the magazine unit pivoting on their seats 23. As the magazine unit is swung into the rearwardly inclined position shown in Fig. 2,

n the forward end of the unit is detached from rest on the shaft 11, thus re-establishing the operative relationship between the forward end of the magazine unit and the shifting mechanism, and by returning the latches on tracks 9 to their normal position as shown in Fig. 1, the rollers 7 will become supported, so that rearward swingof the magazine unit is prevented.

The pins or studs 21 engage in theslots 22 of the frame members 3"only when the magazine unit is in its lowermost position as shown by Fig. 1. When thecrank handle 18 is operated in a direction to bring the middle magazine into operative relation with the reeds 20, the cycloidal or arciiate movement of'the lower or forward end of the magazine unit will carr the pins or studs 21 out of the slots 22, t ence forwardly and finally downwardly until these pins or studs assume the positionindicated at 21, Fig. 1, and when the crank handle 18 is operated to bring the lowermost magazine into operative relation with the reeds 20, the

cycloidal or arcuate movement of the magazine unit incident thereto Wlll bring the pms or studs into the position indicated at 21 Fig. 1.

The magazine unit may be guided laterally between the frame members 3 while moving under the action of the shaft 11 by providing the shaft 11 with reduced portions 11',

which form shoulders 11 thereon and by formingthe open bearings 12 so that they snugly fit upon the reducedportions 11 between the shoulders 11 as shown in Fig. 4:.

The magazine unit is guided between the ported on the stationary main frame or a.

frame fixed to or forming apart of the main frame of the machine, and the magazine unit carries pivots which-have a traversing movement relatively to the mam frame during the magazine shifting movementsof the magazine unit so that they permit such movements to take place without interference. The magazine shifting mechanism has a detachable connection with the magazine unit whereby it rocks rearwardly or into magazine removing position without interference from the magazine shifting mechanism, and when 1t 1s desired to rock said unit into a rearwardly inclined or magazine removing position, the pivots bear on the relatively fixed supporting frame and provide an axis about which such rocking movements take place.

I claim as my invention 1. A. typographical machine comprising a main frame, a magazineunit embodying a plurality of superposed magazines shiftable relatively to the main frame to bring one or another of the magazines into operative position and also rockable to carry the magazines into magazine removing position, and mechanism mounted on the main frame and operative to shift the magazine unit, said mechanism having adetachable connection with the magazine unit to permit rocking thereof into magazine removing position.

2. A typographical machine comprising a mainframe, a magazine unit embodying a plurality of magazines shiftable relativelyi to the main frame to bring one or another of the magazines into operative position and also rockable to carry the magazines into magazine removing 'position, mechanism carried by the main frame and detachably cooperative with the 'magazine unitto shift the latter to bring the desired magazine into position for use and permitting detachment of the magazine unit therefrom when the latter is rocked into magazine removing position, and pivots carried by the magazine un1t which have a trav-erslng movement rela tively to the main frame during the magazine shifting movements of said unit and are arranged to bear on the frame and provide an axis about which the magazine unit mayrock into magazine removing position.

3.- A typographical machine comprising a main frame, a magazine unit embodying a plurality of superposed magazines movable into different operative positions, and means for pivotally mounting the magazine unit directly on a component of the main frame whereby it may be rocked into a magazineremoving position when the magazine unit occupies one of said operative positions.

4. A typographical machine comprising a main frame, a magazine unit containing a plurality of superposed magazines movable into dilferentoperative positions, and means for pivotally mounting the magazine unit onthe main frame whereby it may be rocked into a magazinc' removing position when the magazine unit occupies one of said operative positions and for relieving it of said pivotal mounting when moved to bring another magazinemto operative position.

5. A typographical machine comprising a Lmain frame, a magazine unit containing a plurality of superposed magazincsand movable'to 'bring one or another of such magazines into operative position and also movable to carry the magazines into position for removal, and mechanism for moving the magazine unit'tobringone or, another ofthe magazines pinto operative position, said mechanism being carried on the main frame and arranged to-connect with and disconnect from the magazine unites the latter is rocked into orout of operative position.

6. A typographical machinecomprisinga main frame, a- :magazine unit containing a plurality of superposed magazines, means on the main frame for moving the forward end "of the said unit to bring one or another of the magazines into operative position, and tracks on the main frame and cooperative projections on the magazine unit forguiding and supporting the rear 'end of the latter during the movements of the forwardend thereof.

7. A typographical machine comprising a main frame, a magazine unit containing a plurality of superposedmagazines, means on the main frame for moving the forward end of said unit to bring-one or another of the magazines into operative position, pivot jbearing members arranged to cooperate, when the magazine unitoccupies a predetermined position, to support said unit to rock --into a magazine-removing position. and

- means for supporting the rear end of the magazine unit and controlling the rocking movementthereof.

8. A typographical machine comprising a "main frame, a magazine uniteontaining a plurality of superposed magazines, means supporting the forwardend of the magazine .unit and operative to bring one or another of the magazines into operative position, pivot bearing members cooperative, when the magazine unit occupies a predetermined posltion, to support the unit for rocking movement into a magazine-removing position, and means supporting the rear ortion of said unit, said means being fl(l]l.l$t3bl8 to release said unit and permit it to rock into magazine-removing position.

9 A typographical machine comprising a main frame, a magazine unit containing a plurality -of superposed magazines, pivot pins carried by the magazine unit, means for moving said unit in cycloidal paths to bring one or another of the magazines'into operative position, and pivot bearing members arranged to be engaged with said pivot pins by the cycloidal movement of the magazme unit whereby the latter will be supported to rock into a position for magazine removal. a

10; A typographical machine comprisinga main frame having seatsthereon, a magazine umt containing a plurality of superposed magazines and movable to bring one or another of the magazines into operative position, and pivotpins on said unit movable into cooperation with said seats on the main frame to support the unit to rock int'o magazme-removmg position.

11. A typographical machine comprising a mam frame, a magazine unit embodying a plurality of superposed magazines. and means shiftably supporting said unit direct- 1y on a component of the mainframe whereby one or another of the magazines may be brought into operative position and 'for pivotally supporting said unit directly on said component of the main frame whereby said unit may be rocked into a magazine removing position.

12. A typographical machine comprising a main frame, a magazine unit embodying a plurality of superposed matrix magazines, said unit being .shiftable relatively to, the

main frame to bring one or another of the magazines into operative position and also rockable to carry the "magazines into magazine-removing position. and (an eccentric shaft mountedon a component of the main frame and operative to lift and lower the matrix-delivery end of the magazine unit,

said end of the magazine unit being arranged to rest removably on said'shaft to permit rocking of said unit into magazine removing position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

. THOMAS S. HOMANS. 

